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authorTom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>2001-07-19 00:49:57 +0000
committerTom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>2001-07-19 00:49:57 +0000
commit5dc571b4956d97fc5600e26702390ef42c55f58a (patch)
tree410ebcaf417ae644c3798505fbd3aae18d3a6e3b /m4/missing.m4
parent3c5abbd0037c99983c20287f6faf4fe90ff28cd7 (diff)
downloadautomake-5dc571b4956d97fc5600e26702390ef42c55f58a.tar.gz
2001-07-18 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
* m4/missing.m4: Reword comment.
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@@ -52,17 +52,17 @@ fi
# For projects using AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([foo]), Autoconf sets
# $ac_aux_dir to ${srcdir}/foo. In other projects, it is set to `.'.
-# Of course, Automake must honor this variable whenever it call a tool
-# from the auxiliary directory. The problem is that $srcdir (hence
-# $ac_aux_dir) can be either an absolute path or a path relative to
-# $top_srcdir or absolute, this depends on how configure is run. This
-# is pretty anoying since it makes $ac_aux_dir quite unusable in
-# subdirectories: on the top source directory, any form will work
-# fine, but in subdirectories relative pat needs to be adapted.
-# - calling $top_srcidr/$ac_aux_dir/missing would success if $srcdir is
-# relative, but fail if $srcdir is absolute
-# - conversly, calling $ax_aux_dir/missing would fail if $srcdir is
-# absolute, and success on relative paths.
+# Of course, Automake must honor this variable whenever it calls a tool
+# from the auxiliary directory. The problem is that $srcdir (and therefore
+# $ac_aux_dir as well) can be either an absolute path or a path relative to
+# $top_srcdir, depending on how configure is run. This is pretty annoying,
+# since it makes $ac_aux_dir quite unusable in subdirectories: in the top
+# source directory, any form will work fine, but in subdirectories a relative
+# path needs to be adjusted first.
+# - calling $top_srcdir/$ac_aux_dir/missing would succeed if $ac_aux_dir was
+# relative, but fail if it was absolute.
+# - conversly, calling $ac_aux_dir/missing would fail if $ac_aux_dir was
+# relative, and succeed on absolute paths.
#
# Consequently, we define and use $am_aux_dir, the "always absolute"
# version of $ac_aux_dir.